"It is a horrifying thing to see someone who has spent their lives reading, discussing, and even writing the introductions to books, now sit with a book in their hand for hours, seemingly not to comprehend what is on the page. It is not that they cannot read - it is that she has lost the ability to focus long enough to make sense of the images before her."
"This text was written down by the great sage Patanjali, because he saw that even way back when - before pop up adds, and insta-everything, humans were losing their ability to focus and concentrate - so what was once spoken, and then understood instantly, had to be written down. What would Patanjali think now, I often wonder, about the way machines take notes for us?"
"It is the sixth of the Ashta (Eight) Angas (Limbs) - that make up the Ashtanga Yoga System - one of the four traditional paths of yoga. Because the way of the Ashtanga Yoga practitioner is to silence the mind through meditation, Dharana is the preparatory practice. If one cannot concentrate, there is no way one can meditate - which is the next limb in this system called Dhyana."
Concentration, or Dharana, is a yogic practice that trains the mind to fix its attention in one place. Dharana is the sixth limb of the Ashtanga Yoga system and serves as a preparatory discipline for Dhyana (meditation); without it meditation is unlikely. Dharana is defined as "Concentration is the fixing of the mind in one place." Modern life and digital distractions have eroded attention spans, with average span estimates cited as 8.25 seconds, undermining the ability to sustain focus necessary for meditation and mental clarity.
Read at YogaRenew
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]